Commentary
The final, ineluctable quality that Ornette Coleman brought to the table was that he had an individual “voice,” which is the sine qua non and preeminent ethos in jazz.
Feisty, funny, frightening when necessary, Boston’s Frank Gallop classed-up the airwaves.
Taking action on even a modest number of these suggestions will undoubtedly shake up the current puerility of much of American theater criticism.
Our opera-loving reviewer contrasts his own pieces, written 48 years apart, on the same Offenbach operetta.
What lies beyond COVID-19 for the arts community?
Now that the real live boy is an old man, how’s he holding up in 2020?
Today, our perception of the environment has become narrowed, defensive: the outside world has become worrisome, dangerous, aspirational, and changing.
It seems evident that hardly anyone knows about the centenary of a moviemaker who, in earlier days, was universally revered, whose hallowed name was synonymous with art-house cinema.
The opportunity to see the culture-changing Broadway phenomenon Hamilton on Disney Plus, sucked up all the arts oxygen over the Fourth of July weekend.
Arts Remembrance: Director Alan Parker — A Sensitive and Versatile Master of Film
It gradually became clear to me by the mid-’80s that Alan Parker films were, more than those of any other filmmaker, an integral part of my identity as a film lover.
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